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Vonage - A better phone service for less |
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12:02 pm EDT, Apr 19, 2007 |
Vonage sucks. Right now April 19th, 2007 vonage has experienced 5hrs of a self described "network upgrade" to "improve service". It seems that current levels of service are "none" to "bullshit". This includes 911 service. Which put all their customers out of touch with emergency services via the vonage network. The Ts&Cs shouldn't indemnify Vonage Holdings (LLC) of putting their customers in danger. Of course they could be verizon trouble too. Or they are the target of a DDoS attack. Perhaps some evil villain is using this downtime to rob poor aunt May of all her (what brands does aunt carry?) See Spiderman 3 to find out that and more... (sponsored by vonage our shares aren't worth crap) Vonage - A better phone service for less |
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Alberto R. Gonzales - Nothing Improper - washingtonpost.com |
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5:28 pm EDT, Apr 15, 2007 |
By Alberto R. Gonzales
Sunday, April 15, 2007; Page B07 My decision some months ago to privately seek the resignations of a small number of U.S. attorneys has erupted into a public firestorm. First and foremost, I appreciate the public service of these fine lawyers and dedicated professionals, each of whom served his or her full four-year term as U.S. attorney. I apologize to them, their families and the thousands of dedicated professionals at the Justice Department for my role in allowing this matter to spin into an undignified Washington spectacle.
Watch for the hot legislative testimony Tuesday on C-SPAN. (Check local listings) This Attorney General Gonzales's opinion piece from the washington post. --timball Alberto R. Gonzales - Nothing Improper - washingtonpost.com |
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Kurt Vonnegut Dies at 84 - washingtonpost.com |
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7:19 am EDT, Apr 12, 2007 |
Kurt Vonnegut, the satirical novelist who captured the absurdity of war and questioned the advances of science in darkly humorous works such as "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Cat's Cradle," died Wednesday. He was 84.
Vonnegut remains one of my favorite authors. Uniquely american. He will be missed. --tim “new wii browser” ball Kurt Vonnegut Dies at 84 - washingtonpost.com |
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1:57 pm EDT, Apr 11, 2007 |
This is a flash game where you play an indiana jones type character and have to go thru a temple solving various coding puzzles. Yes I said "coding puzzles". Okay so it's all an elaborate ruse to get you to register for sun studio 11. There's a prize of $5k if you win. --timball Temple of the Sun |
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GOP-issued laptops now a White House headache - Los Angeles Times |
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5:16 pm EDT, Apr 9, 2007 |
Some Republican activists say the e-mail request will not create great difficulty for the White House because nothing nefarious happened and because the RNC automatically purges some e-mails after 30 days.
We don't need no stinking shredders! Today's message is simple. Government in the United States is about transparency. Some things are secret and should be, maybe, but public policy is not one of those things. It's time for this batch of crooks to go. GOP-issued laptops now a White House headache - Los Angeles Times |
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9:52 pm EDT, Apr 8, 2007 |
Tivo just got this movie for me off of encore. And I gotta say for a caper movie it's damn good. Well written and not on the instant delete list. --timball Layer Cake (2004) |
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The Raw Story | Japanese porn swap leaks US military data: report |
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| Topic: Intellectual Property |
7:05 pm EDT, Apr 5, 2007 |
Top-secret data on an advanced US military system was leaked because Japanese officers were swapping porn files at work, a newspaper said Thursday. Japan is questioning a naval officer on charges he obtained confidential data on the US-developed Aegis combat system, the defence ministry said Wednesday.
There are too many jokes I could put here... so here are just a few punchlines: "F**king Japanese"
"bukkake export controls"
"seriously... f**king japanese" --timball The Raw Story | Japanese porn swap leaks US military data: report |
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1:55 pm EDT, Apr 4, 2007 |
Welcome to the alpha version of Many Eyes!
View your data, ask questions, and share your discoveries.
Harness the collective intelligence of the net for insight and analysis.
/me has evil data to plot Many Eyes |
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Man with tuberculosis jailed for not wearing mask - CNN.com |
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2:41 pm EDT, Apr 3, 2007 |
Robert Daniels has been locked up indefinitely, perhaps for the rest of his life, since last July. But he has not been charged with a crime. Instead, he suffers from an extensively drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis, or XDR-TB. It is considered virtually untreatable. County health authorities obtained a court order to lock him up as a danger to the public because he failed to take precautions to avoid infecting others. Specifically, he said he did not heed doctors' instructions to wear a mask in public. "I'm being treated worse than an inmate," Daniels said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press last month. "I'm all alone. Four walls. Even the door to my room has been locked. I haven't seen my reflection in months."
Civil Rights? Man with tuberculosis jailed for not wearing mask - CNN.com |
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